Garment



c. G. WRIGHT Feb. 14, 1933.

GARMENT Filed March 6, 1950 IN VENTOR 6/0?" G'WF/Q/W A TTORNE Y Patented Feb. 14, 1933 CLAIR G. WRIGHT, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI GARMENT Application filed March 6,

My invention relates to garments, and more particularly to blouses and bloomers of childrens wearing apparel.

A blouse and a pair of bloomers usually comprise separate garments, adapted to be fastened together by buttons or the like for supporting the bloomers from the blouse, and the back of the blouse must be unbuttoned by the wearer or a helper to afford a back opening, and permit a portion of the bloomers to be let down. Should back portions of the blouse and bloomers be left unfastened, the bloomers will sag, the lower edge of the blouse will creep, and the back of the child will be exposed. The bloomers are usually adapted to be supported by a blouse to avoid use of an uncomfortable and possibly harmful constricting inelastic or elastic Waist band on the bloomers which would surround and engage the childs body with sufficient pressure to support the bloomers, and which would permit the lower portions of the blouse to creep and wrinkle.

My invention therefore has for its principal objects to provide a unitary garment including blouse and bloomer portions, to effect retention of blouse and bloomer portions in proper position while being worn without the use of fastening means or harmfully constrictive bands, and to facilitate separation and reassembly of back portions of a blouse and bloomers, whereby a unitary garment may fit a child comfortably and the parts will be securely supported in proper position for wear, and the child may easily manipulate the garment to form a back opening and restore the parts of the garment to proper position for wear.

In accomplishing these and other objects of the invention, I have provided improved details of structure, the preferred forms of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view from the rear of a child wearing a garment constructed in accordance with my invention.

Fig. 2 is a front view of the same.

Fig. 8 is an enlarged fragmentary detail perspective view of the garment, illustrating a blouse flap in open position, a bloomer 1930. Serial No. 433,767.

waist line portion being partly broken away, displaced, and shown fragmentarily to better illustrate construction.

Fig. 4.- is an enlarged detail perspective h view partly in section of an upper edge portion of the bloomer portion of the garment, the members being partly disassembled. Pafa- -i I) 1 d1 \v tiling 1a c war tne iawmg.

1 designates a pair of bloomers or pants including front and back members 2 and 3 and having a closed continuous circular waist encircling upper edge portion including a relatively narrow hem a formed by turning the upper edge of the front member,

and. a hem 5 formed by folding the upper" edge portion 6 of the back member inwardly on a line spaced above the folded edge of the hem l to form offsets T and vertical hem end edge portions 7 at the junctures of,

tical edges of the front member overlie the outer faces of the bloomer back member at the vertical edges thereof and are attached thereto by stitching 8 defining vertical side seam positions.

Mounted in the recess between the body of the back member 3 and the portion 6 thereof forming the back there is an elastic strip 9 shorter than the hem 5 and having an upper edge adjacent the fold edge of the hem, and a lower ed 'e adjacent the raw edge there of, the ends of the strip being spaced slightly from the ends of the back hem 5 to leave spacing sections 10. A tape 11 having in wardly folded edges is mounted on the inwardly presented face of the hem portion 5 having an upper edge spaced from the fold edge of the hem and projecting elow the lower edge of the hem portion 5. A line of stitching 12 adjacent the fold edge attaches the elastic strip to the body and portion 6 of the back member. Lines of stitching l3 and 15 extend through the folded portions of the tape, portion 6, elastic stripand body of the back member to secure the same together,

and-a line of stitching 1 located below the i i 3 55 :front member toform downwardly-extendlower edge of the elastic strip and portion 6 secures the lower edge portion of the tape: to the body of the back bloomer member 7 'j v The stitches abovereferred to are applied 5 while the elastic strip is tensioned and the hem 5 is preferablymade longer than the width of theback section of the blouse later Y described, whereby: the stitched portions of V the heme and tape and adjacent portions of 10 the back member of the bloomers,-are wrinkled when the strip is relaxed.

A waist or blouse securedto the bloomers} to form a unit, includes a front. member-16 of substantially the same width asthe front member of the bloomersiand'havi'ng a vertically relatively narrowydowergedge portion lToverlapping the inner face of the heme]: and attached thereto bylines of stitching 18, and vertical edge portions underlying the en fac f h f e n pqr ns YS f h hem Sand attached thereto by linesof stitch- The blouse further includes aback member :20 having materiallygreater length than the ing vertical edges 2lfand; lying inside the front member and bloomers; vertical edge portions 21- are-attached to theebloomers and front waist Qme nber; respectively by downwardly "continued lportions of the stitches 8 and the lines stitching 19 and" to the front waist member-by; upward contin-- nations of said lines of stitching 19, thusdefini'n side seam'positions I inflthe? bloomers andforming sideseams 19 i'n'the blouse.

The ,back-member'of the: blouse is thus attached only atvertical edgeson median lines on the sides of the garment, whereby a 'flap 7-22 is formed adapted to; be'freely movable e into and out of; the bloomers,and having'a flower horizontal edgenormally parallelwith y the plane of the waistline. Y

ff-The garmentabove described thus com-'9 prises a unit including a blouse and bloomers 541 having a; :front' memberl supportedloy ,the

' blousewhen worn, the'relatively'shortelastic portion at the bloomerwaist line, engaging the body ofthewearer, serving to retain'the back member of the bloomers in proper align} ment with the waist line of the front mem her but having relatively small constricting effect on the body. v f LThe flap portion of the blouse-is normally retained in depending position tocover the ,55

'the backmember, and m'ayithen restorethe p f I back member and flapto normal position; s 6.5 -mWhileiI;haveused itlie :term' bloomers? back blouse 'secti on to the b1oomers.; x =3.- Agarment including a front portion buttocks 0f the wearer, both because ofthe' anchoring function of the downwardly e x- The wearer may easilywithdraw the flap throughout the specification "in describing V the lower portion of the garment, it is to be understood that pants portions can be substituted therefor as the equivalent. to the term bloomers. v

VWhatI claim a-nd desire'to secure by LettersfPatent is; a f V l 1; A garment comprising bloomers includ-- ing front and back members having substantially aligned-upper edges and vertical edges defining'side seamsv of said bloomers; and a blousejcomp'rising a front member having a lower edge attachedt'o the upper edge of the "front member of the bloomers and a .back member having a lower edge portion depending below the-upper edgeof the back member of the bloomers-and anchored to said" side seams. f I 1 i 2. A garment comprising front and vback bloon er'sections having substantially aligned upper-edges provided'with hems stitching r connecting saidihems to; form side seams," an

elastic strip inthe hem of theback 'bloomer section," a front blouse section having a lower edge. attached to the hem of the bloomer frontsection; aback blouse section ncluding an upper: portion having vertical sideiiedges located: substantially in alignmentv ,With said side seams and connected to the front-blouse section, a lower portion having fvertical side; edges extendinga substantial distance along I the bloomers in alignment a with sa d slde seams," 'a ndj means securmfg;

said sideiedges o f the lower. portion ofthe having waist and pant sections, a-backjpant sectionunited with the front pant section to I form a pant' portion ,of the garment'iand havingafree upper edge providediwithja hem; an elastic strip'in saidhem, means at the waist line of said frontportion connected with saidhemto form a continuous waist band around the garment, a back waist section including a lower end portion depending into the back, pant section, and having vertical edges registering substantially, with the median'side lines of thepant portion ofythe' the pant' portion of the Intestimony r r G-.'.WRIGHT. 

